As you may know I will be teaching new versions of our CCIE Security Advanced Technologies Class for Blueprint v3.0 and CCIE Service Provider Advanced Technologies Class for Blueprint v3.0 in the coming weeks. Specifically the CCIE Security Advanced Technologies Class will be running as a live online class from July 25th – July 29th 2011, with an estimated release date of August 5th 2011 for the videos. The CCIE Service Provider Advanced Technologies Class will be running as a live online class from August 29th – September 2nd 2011, with an estimated release date of September 9th 2011.

The purpose of this post is to solicit topic requests for both classes from students that will either be attending the classes live online, or watching the on-demand videos at a later date. If you have requests or suggestions please post them as a comment below. Note that in general both classes will be covering all topics that are within their respective CCIE blueprints. If you have something very specific you would like to see covered please let me know.

Also remember that Subscribers to the All Access Pass will have immediate access to the streaming videos as they become available, and can attend the live online sessions of CCIE Security ATC and CCIE Service Provider ATC at no additional charge. Seating is limited for the live class sessions, so contact sales@ine.com as soon as possible if you are interested in attending. Download versions of each of the classes will be available for purchase as a standalone product, or as a discounted upgrade for AAP subscribers.

About Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593, CCDE #2013::13:

Brian McGahan was one of the youngest engineers in the world to obtain the CCIE, having achieved his first CCIE in Routing & Switching at the age of 20 in 2002. Brian has been teaching and developing CCIE training courses for over 10 years, and has assisted thousands of engineers in obtaining their CCIE certification. When not teaching or developing new products Brian consults with large ISPs and enterprise customers in the midwest region of the United States.

Right now I am just going to start my SPv3 Journey. Going further I would request to see few things as new products for SPv3 takes their shape.

1. New SP workbooks to be more detailed breakdown this time like you guys have for R&S. I recently buy SP bundle few months back and I must say though SP vol 1 looked quiet impressive in terms of labs, but still not detailed enough and pretty much no breakdown for labs.

So this time vol 1 and vol 2 must be covering not only all relevant topics but must have detailed breakdown like R&S vol 1 and 2.

Also it will be too good if you guys can come up with some sort of OLS and AOD products for SPv3 like you have for R&S.

2. I would really like to see SP Written Bootcamp course too from INE, reason being is that if someone like me don’t have strong SP background then chances are less that I already understood some of Written SP topics such as optical networks, Sonet, DWDM etc

In Written bootcamp at-least we can build good background on all these technologies which comes in written exam if not in lab exam.

For the SP ATC, I would really to see all the sub-topics covered under the following headings in the CCIE SPv3 blueprint.

1. Packet over SONET
2. IP over DWDM
3. SP High end Products
4.SP QOS
5. FE/GE and Ethernet trunk connections
6.IP over DSL to the Customer
7. IP over wire line to the Customer
8. IP over cable to the customer
9.Atom
10. VPLS And Carrier Ethernet
11. L2TPV3 for L2VPN

These are the topics I feel would greatly benefit anyone who doesn’t really have the LAB or experience of a SP environment.

I figure the new SP/Security ATC videos will follow the format of the new R&S ATCs, which are great in terms of content but I have to say I really miss the black/green SecureCRT windows from the older R&S/SP videos. The black/white is hard on the eyes during those marathon study sessions. The same thing goes when looking at the topology diagrams. More color would be great. Make it so!

I am having a look into the PKI section and this looks very complicated with ASA and IOS also when we use hostname to make the VPN come up . Please explain this and show this configuration in greater depth with different scenario . There has been quite a debate on the Cisco Learning Network with this topic .

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